The City Council urged Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday to budget an additional $32 million for the agency tasked with enforcing dozens of its laws — expressing concern that without the extra money, a chunk of the landmark worker protection legislation that it passed in recent years won’t actually work.
The council’s proposal would bring the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection’s (DCWP) budget to just about $111 million, a roughly 40% increase from Mamdani’s May budget proposal, which allocated $78.4 million to the agency.
